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Died. Leon Fraser, 55, world financial expert who began a varied career as a poor, adopted farm boy at North Granville, N.Y., ended up as president of the billion-dollar First National Bank of New York, after being a reporter, teacher, soldier, bureaucrat, lawyer, diplomat; by his own hand (gunshot); on the lawn of the farm-summer estate where he grew up. He left notes blaming his melancholia: "Except for this mental depression, I have everything to live for. . . . Sorry to be a nuisance this...
...successful is evident in the roll call of Condé Nast products. Today C. N. Publications mothers, besides Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour (fashions for the younger set), British Vogue, the Vogue Pattern Book, Vogue patterns, Hollywood patterns. A French edition was suspended in 1940 when the Germans got within gunshot of Paris...
...White. Wound treatment was kept simple: gunshot wounds had their edges cut away, were not sewed up; wounds involving bone were usually put in plaster casts (the Orr-Trueta method which got its first full tryout in the Spanish War; TIME, July 8, 1940), and left alone, perhaps for weeks. "Some surgeons made a habit of using sphagnum moss* for surgical dressings...
...they cannot be by-passed." Most of these are things not to do-the best way to handle a wound is as little as possible, to let nature heal it. Time was when a surgeon's unnecessary probings and meddlings were more lethal to soldiers than swordthrust or gunshot...
...ships, said as much. His orders were to attack the oncoming, superior enemy at all costs, to kill Japs and sink Jap ships regardless of the risk to Allied lives and outnumbered Allied ships. If the Jap could not now be stopped at sea, almost within gunshot of the Java coast, at least he could be made...